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On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire. Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks , typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
Clark is widely regarded as the "mastermind" of the 2020 Twitter account hijacking, [5] [6] an event in which Clark worked with Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli to compromise 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to push a cryptocurrency scam involving bitcoin along with seizing "OG" (short for original) usernames to sell on OGUsers.
Under its "civic integrity" policy created in 2018 and expanded in May 2020, [368] [369] Twitter scrutinizes statements that may affect participation in democracy. Twitter has invited certain nonprofits to flag problematic tweets in this subject area. [370] Twitter also announced on May 11 that it would begin to flag "misleading information."
Twitter, which was acquired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk last October, was the only exception. All major social media platforms do poorly at protecting LGBTQ+ users from hate speech and harassment ...
These attacks are wide-ranging, global and do not seem to discriminate among governments and companies. Operation Shady RAT; World of Hell; Red October, discovered in 2012, was reportedly operating worldwide for up to five years prior to discovery, transmitting information ranging from diplomatic secrets to personal information, including from mobile devices.
2020 Romans-sur-Isère knife attack: A 33-year-old man stabbed 7 people before being arrested by police. Europol classified the attack as jihadist terrorism. [15] Abdallah Ahmed-Osman Islamic terrorism in Europe: 28 April Grenade attack 53: 50+ Afrin, Syria 2020 Afrin bombing: A grenade caused a fuel tanker to explode near a market and a ...
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